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Xiang Biao on a Society at the Edge

An anthropologist with a wide youth following and a knack for popularizing academic terms explains how China’s stratified society led to social malaise amid economic...

The Runaways

Young Chinese have been moving away from big cities into rust-belt towns with cheap housing and less pressure. A new book asks what they’re running...

No Country for Women

Women in China have suffered abuse, silencing and erasure — despite Communist Party slogans about women's liberation. Two novels by the Chinese writer Fang Fang...
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April 14, 6:30-8pm; Asia Society NYC

Korean Messiah to China’s 21st Century Helmsman

Join us to hear Wall Street Journal's China Bureau Chief Jonathan Cheng examine the tense strategic landscape in Northeast Asia — from Donald Trump's China strategy to prospects for renewed U.S.–DPRK diplomacy — on occasion of the launch of his book “Korean Messiah,” in conversation with Julian Gewirtz.
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